From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha